Thursday, June 9, 2011

I got dragged in to ER last night to see an acute stroke. In the next room there was a 16 year old guy wailing and screaming uncontrollably.

He'd taken the family car without permission. Wrecked it. Knocked over a traffic light, broken both legs. And (of course) didn't have a license.

He was fine and quiet with all this until he found out his mom was coming to the hospital. And then he REALLY freaked out. Not over the wreck... but because she'd see that he'd gotten a tattoo on his chest.

"Oh my God! She's going to kill me! She hates tattoos! Please! Somebody, give me a gown, a shirt, a towel, anything, please, I gotta cover this! Please! Why did you guys have to cut my shirt off? This is going to get me in such deep shit. Somebody! A blanket! Or even a big band-aid! Or something, anything, to put over it."

31 comments:

So Mom won't care that he stole the car, wrecked it, didn't have a license, and was seriously injured? Shit for brains, all teen boys have shit for brains. And of course, he never considered any of this before he stole the car...

My own ER story, my daughter--now RN wanted to know how they treated me at ER, after I knocked myself out cold in a fall Superbly said I--Why she queried, as her perspective was set by her stint in school. I replied because I wasn't on drugs, I wasn't drunk, I was clean and I wasn't abusive to staff--unlike almost every other asshole in the patient category.

Talk about missing the big picture! What a moron! He committed a crime, had a major wreck which will cost the city $$$ to fix, did bodily harm to himself, and is worried about a tattoo. Hmmmm, sounds like someone needs a little perspective! Unbelievable! (This sounds like something my nephew would do, crossing my fingers he doesn't!)

A coworker of mine has two tats one on each ankle. She had kept them successfully from her Mother and had planned to even past her wedding day. However her Mom went dress shopping with her and could see them under the dressing room door. And this is an adult. *SMH*

So wrecking the family car, severely injuring himself, destroying property, all while not having a license--all that would have been okay with Mom, but a tattoo is going to be an issue? I think I see how the family dynamic works already.

He took the car and broke both legs. Mom may just be thankful he's alive. The tattoo, however, occurred *before* the accident that injured him. I'd say it's some pretty decent reasoning from a teenage point of view.

To the idiot who doesn't think Mom will care either way - parents are not responsible for every single action their children take. I managed to do some pretty stupid things as a teenager, none of which my mother (or father) was responsible for.

If it's not the parents fault, it's the teachers fault. If it's not the teachers fault, it's the governments fault...

Well, I'd give some consideration to the fact this kid has rattled his brain cell(s) kind of thoroughly and can probably think at most one thought at a time. The fact that he chose a silly thought to think should probably not surprise us. This is not a mental giant...

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